Podcast appearances and mentions of James Asher

James Asher shares his journey from a challenging childhood to running for youth chair of the Michigan Republican Party. He discusses the impact of COVID-19 on education, the importance of youth engagement, and the economic challenges facing Michigan's next generation. Discover more at Enjoyer.com/PodcastFollow James Asher on X: @JamestAsherFollow James on X:@DownI75 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit michiganenjoyer.substack.com

Two veteran political journalists Jim Asher and Dale Eisman who have investigated and analyzed Washington power for decades discuss what they saw in watching the Trump Inauguration and what they think it portends. It was a weird day from the guest list to the richest man in the world making a Nazi salute and it's likely to get more weird, they agree. James Asher, now retired, was a veteran investigative journalist and Pulitzer-Prize winning editor. Over his career, he worked as reporter and editor at five newspapers on the East Coast, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Baltimore Sun, In 2002, he moved to Washington as national investigative editor for The Knight Rider company. He later ran the Washington Bureau for the McClatchy Co., which bought Knight Ridder in 2006. Under his leadership, McClatchy set a standard for independence in Washington, winning numerous national awards for journalistic excellence. In 2017, he shared a Pulitzer for his work on the global Panama Papers document leak about off-shore tax havens. In all, he managed and edited four other projects that were finalists for a Pulitzer, including two for McClatchy and two for The Sun.  After leaving McClatchy, he worked for Injustice Watch, a nonprofit focused on criminal justice reform, and he helped The Associated Press with its coverage of the Mueller investigation of Donald Trump.  A native of Utica, NY, Asher holds a B.S. and a M.S. from Syracuse University and did postgraduate work in finance, economics and accounting in Temple University's MBA program. Dale Eisman is a veteran journalist who capped a 37-year newspaper career in Virginia and Washington DC with an eight-year stint advocating for good governance as a writer and editor at Common Cause. He's covered trials in state and federal courts and campaigns for offices from city council to the Virginia statehouse to the US House and Senate. He's also been catapulted off aircraft carriers and tracked sailors, soldiers, airmen and Marines in the US, Europe, and the Middle East. Now retired, he lives in Surf City, NC.

Veteran political journalists, Jim Asher and Dale Eisman, investigated and analyzed Washington power for decades. They discuss with Rosemary Armao what they saw in watching the Trump inauguration and what they think it portends. They spoke about the unusual guest list and that the richest man in the world made a Nazi salute.

En la penumbra suave de la noche estrellada, la música susurra secretos al viento, cada nota es un sueño que danza en el aire, tejiendo melodías de amor y anhelo. Así que sueña profundo, deja que la música te envuelva, que cada melodía sea un faro en la oscuridad. Porque en los sueños y en las notas que vibran, se encuentra la esencia de nuestra realidad. Peter Davidson, André Barros, TSODE, David Baron, James Asher & Byron Metcalf, Aleksandr Shamaluev, Robert Rich, Deus Astra, Sjellos, The Secession, David Michael Tardy, Asha Elijah, Klaus Schulze. 🎧 El playlist detallado: lostfrontier.org/t29.html#1038.

THESE HOT SUMMER DAYS inspire a more energetic music, born out of ancient rituals, festivals, and religious ceremonies, and featuring primitive instruments whose descendants are still with us—flutes, rattles, drums, and other members of the global percussion family. Whether played for practical communication on hunts, for social and military occasions, or to accompany artistic performances, percussion music served many functions in cultures all over the ancient world. According to Grateful Dead drummer MICKEY HART in his essential book PLANET DRUM: “World Music—and the percussive impulse that drives it—reaches past the needs of the marketplace, into emotional and spiritual dialogue with older oral traditions. Underneath the world's extraordinary musical diversity is another, deeper realm, in which there is no better or worse, no modern or primitive, no art music or folk music—no distinctions at all—but rather an organic compulsion to translate the emotional fact of being alive into sound, into rhythm, into something you can dance to.” On this transmission of HEARTS of SPACE—an ambient/trance/world percussion journey—on a program called PLANETARY RHYTHMS. Music is by JAMES HOOD, SPACE DRUM MEDITATION, DON PEYOTE, JAMES ASHER, MICHAEL SHRIEVE, HANG MASSIVE, SHAMANIC DRUMS, BYRON METCALF, and MICKEY HART. [ view playlist ] [ view Flickr image gallery ] [ play 30 second MP3 promo ]

Reminding you why the Mississippi Gulf Coast is such a great place to live, work, and play

Reminding you why the Mississippi Gulf Coast is such a great place to live, work, and play

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Reminding you why the Mississippi Gulf Coast is such a great place to live, work, and play

Greetings, Totebaggers!Donovan is not here, but we've got James Asher from That Thing with James!We tangent so fkn hard for so fkn long, then we discuss differing speeds of emotional development, a very sweet listener follow up and a relationship with libido issues.You can listen to James' show here!https://www.youtube.com/user/jimjack87 You can subscribe to our patreon here!https://www.patreon.com/rftb

For the best of this episode head to YouTube for my first full length Video Podcast with some awesome video's from the performers. Dear Mom Words by David Lilburn MBE. Sung by Stevie Boreham. Arrangement, instruments, mixed and video by Sam Holloway. Composed and produced by Suzie Stanford. Thank you to my song-writing coach Jane Taylor. Suzie Stanford © (P) 2018 MILITARY VETERANS CREATIVE ARTS C.I.C.(12229585) PayPal donate link. https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_... Remembrance parade Song credits: Words by Veteran - David Lilburn Female Vocal - Petra Coase Male vocal - Cain Leathem Boy vocal - Oscar William Leathem Piano performed by - Jane Taylor Bagpipe and Flutes - Lelnick Mixed and mastered by Trust Media UK Female recorded at - James Asher at Starfield Studios Male and Boy vocal - recorded by Cain Leathem Credits to the video Thank you to Oscar William Leathem the young lad and Cain Leathem. Thanks to Matt Lightfoot for the photos and video footage and Sgt. Steve Warren for lending the medals. Thank you Trust Media UK for creating the video. Suzie Stanford © MVCA Production 2020 MILITARY VETERANS CREATIVE ARTS C.I.C (12229585) Blue Pigment is a platform for talent; a place for undiscovered artists to launch themselves from or just a place for individuals to express themselves. Please ensure you like, share, subscribe, and follow us! https://www.youtube.com/results?searc... www.bluepigment.co.uk www.patreon.com/join/Bluepigment www.instagram.com/blue_pigment_podcast www.facebook.com/BluePigment www.twitter.com/bluepigment1 Spotify: Blue Pigment Podcast Email: bluepigmentpodcast@outlook.com

How does a traditional Republican fight the Trump takeover of the GOP? That's the question Dan and Kim asked a young Republican finding his voice speaking out against what he calls “Trumplicans.” James Asher, a self-described Young Republican, volunteer & staffer for local Republican campaigns and high school student, joined the show for a discussion on what's next for politics from the next generation.Links for James:James Asher's websiteJames' podcast The Start of SomethingJames on TwitterJames on LinkedInLinks for My America:My America TwitterMy America InstagramKim's InstagramDan's InstagramKim's TwitterDan's TwitterEmail usIf you liked the show, please consider sharing this podcast with your friends, family and network. Your stamp of approval is more valuable to us than we can articulate. We're here to spread love and hope, as well as encourage growth. So we appreciate your sharing! Also, leaving a review (and rating) helps spread the word. And it makes us feel warm and squishy. The My America podcast publishes every Thursday at 6 AM EST.

In this episode: I share the SECRET to making women OBSESSED with you, tips on HOW TO POUND (with more than just the tip), and the PLAYER'S guide to making women PEE. You won't BELIEVE how EASY it is!Support this podcast via my Patreon: patreon.com/ThatThingWithJamesInsta & Twit: @jamesjasher Website: jamesjasher.com Need advice? Have a story or subject you'd like me to cover on the show? Just want to say hi? Send me an email: ThatThingWithJames@gmail.com

Join Dr. I and James Asher with host Kristin Walker as they discuss how digital media distractions are affecting the mental health of teenagers.

Join Dr. I and Kristin Walker as they welcome James Asher and his podcast The Start of Something to MHNR Network. James is a 15 year old high school student that we met while speaking at Michigan's first Student Mental Health Summit. He reached out to us about wanting to be a guest and we offered him a podcast! His show is about the hours of homework, crushes and breakups, acne and bullies: being a teenager. So where do we start? With your host James Asher, and featuring teens, teachers, parents, politicians and doctors. The Start of Something brings you the ideas that have the power to change the way you think and live as a teenager. Each episode focuses on one big idea revolving around Mental Health. So let’s start something.https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-start-of-something

It seems that our podcast no 145 was extremely popular with our listeners going by the stats. Funny enough it was one of Micks shows he enjoyed compiling. Hopefully you will be again enthusiastic to hear what we bring to our latest edition, which brings such a diverse energy of electronic sounds. It was a privilege to bring Clifford Whites music to Sequences, with tracks from his 4 albums in the Synergy series, melodic upbeat & relaxing tunes. Ambient side filled with such dynamics & spacial depth from Astovia, Neostra & going deeper into the dark side with NIMH. Something a little bit different from Craig Padilla with his long term friend Marvin Allen, melodic and rhythmic, surreal and drifting, the result, a timeless adventure through illuminating guitar tonalities and majestic synthesizer vistas. If it’s modular sequencers you want, you are going to enjoy Adrian Beasley’s album Machine Code & d’Voxx arranged Berlin School inspired sequence lines, wrapped up in a gorgeous blanket of modern ambience on the Din label. Lighter sequencing from the prolific composer SpiralDreams. On the ethereal vocals & the symphonic side, check out Xyrion, Neostra & James Asher. The creative signature sound of Saul Stokes. NNYZ? gives us highly detailed textures with glitchy beats & field recordings. On the experimental side the amusing & eclectic Bloop & Quack. Some lovely echoing slightly off-in-the-distance piano excursions played by Whalt Thisney & Tedd Arnolds unique sonic style, edging on the progressive side. Blast from the past comes from the 1974 release Zygoat, composed by American Burt Alcantara with the main musicians on this album Brian Hodgson, Dudley Simpson & John Lewis, performing on ARP and R.S.E synthesizers. Brian & Dudley are known for their background music for various sci fi shows like Doctor Who and Blake's 7, Lewis was a member of the band M that had the huge worldwide hit, Pop Muzik. Playlist No 147 03.13 Adrian Beasley ‘MC1’ (album Machine Code) *** www.adrianbeasley.bandcamp.com 11.48 d’Voxx ‘Akalia Norr’ (album Telegraphe) www.DIN.org.uk 24.13 d’Voxx ‘Tempelhof’ 29.47 Clifford White 'Robot Dawn’ (album Robot Dawn, Synergy Vol 3) www.cliffordwhite.bandcamp.com 36.52 Clifford White ‘Froesen Dream’ (album The Speed Of Silence, Synergy Vol 2) 43.49 Clifford White ‘Kinetic’ (album Waterworld, Synergy Vol1) 51.10 Clifford White ‘The Darker Path’ (album Cityscapes, Synergy Vol 4) 56.52 Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen ‘Toward The Horizon’ (album Towards The Horizon) *** www.spottedpeccary.com 01.07.17 Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen ‘Liquid Heaven’ *** 01.11.25 Astrovia ’Sun’s Cradle’ (album Solar Nursery Vol 1) https://archive.org/details/PILOTELEVEN_018 01.17.43 NIMH ‘The Thanandar's Room ‘ (album Beyond The Crying Era) www.winter-light.nl 01.23.49 Neostra ‘Passage To Eternal’ (album Seven Colors) www.neostramusic.bandcamp.com 01.32.15 Neostra ‘Depth Of Sight’ 01.36.09 Saul Stokes ‘Replaced’ (album Expansion) https://saulstokes.com/album/expansion 01.48.29 Tedd Arnold ‘September’ (album Invisble Inside) www.teddarnold.bandcamp.com 01.55.51 SpiralDreams ‘Castle In The Sky Pt1’ (album Castle In The Sky) www.spiraldreams.bandcamp.com 02.03.17 Xyrion ’Storm: featuring Elisa’ (album Floating On Images & Waves) www.xyrion.bandcamp.com 02.05.35 Xyrion ‘Arais’ 02.15.52 James Asher & Arthur Hull ‘Camera Obscura’ (album On The Good Foot) www.rspromotionsus.com 02.22.21 James Asher & Arthur Hull ‘Far & Wide’ 02.27.50 nnyz? ‘Down’ (album aetiology) http://www.kahvi.org 02.31.21 nnyz? ‘Real Eyes’ 02.34.28 Whalt Thisney ‘Common’ (album This Memorial Device) https://archive.org/details/PILOTELEVEN_018 02.41.33 Burt Alcantara ‘Leaves Of Sand/The Libran Sea’ (album Zygoat) *** 02,49.05 Bloop & Quack ‘Melodic Moon’ ***(album Palo Radio) www.bloopandquack.bandcamp.com 02.53.21 Bloop & Quack ‘Wade In ‘ Edit ***

This week's guest is James Asher, who has a fascinating background in all kinds of music, but with a particularly interesting focus on world music. https://soundtrack.academy/jamesasher Having been leant his first 4-track recorder by Pete Townshend of The Who, James has gone on to create over 50 albums, one selling over 200 thousand copies. He has a wealth of experience in the music industry, and fully utilises his music studio as a compositional and creative tool - not just as a means to record. Links: https://www.james-asher.co.uk/ http://www.starfieldstudios.co.uk/

We talk with Stephen Krashen, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, about the teacher research knowledge gap: what do teachers need to know about second language acquisition, what are the barriers stopping them and what we can do to solve this problem. We discuss open access journals, the Grateful Dead compressible input, compressible output and evidence based language teaching.Ross Thorburn: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the TEFL Training Institute Podcast. This week, I'm very excited to tell you that our guest is Professor Stephen Krashen from the University of California. This episode, I ask Stephen Krashen about what teachers need to know and what stops them from finding out. Enjoy the interview.What Teachers Need to Know About Language LearningRoss: Stephen Krashen, welcome to the podcast. Can you start off by telling us a bit about what the teachers need to know? What sort of research and concepts, maybe, from second language acquisition do teachers most need to know about?Professor Stephen Krashen: What I want to do is talk a little bit about theory, what I call the 40 years war.Stephen Krashen: It's actually longer than that. God! You know how it is when you discover that your old pair of pants is 30 years old and your new pair is 20 years old?Stephen Krashen: That's the situation I'm in. Anyway, the 40 years war is really now nearly the 50 years war. This all started in the '70s. It's a war between two hypotheses. One of them, which I think is the good guy, I call the comprehension hypothesis. It's very simple, says we acquire language and develop literacy when we understand what we hear, when we understand what we read.Credit where credit is due. I am not the inventor of this idea. I have been mostly responsible for public relations and seeing if it's true or not, but there are several people who were there before me. In the field of literacy, Frank Smith, raging genius, in my opinion. Kenneth Goodman, the whole language people were, in my opinion, all there. They had it.We learn to read by understanding what's on the page. We learn to read by understanding messages. In the field of second language acquisition, people like James Asher, Total Physical Response, he was there before I was. Harris Winitz, a foreign language expert in the States, was there before me.A whole number of people had the idea pretty well. I do try to cite them in my work. This is what we've been working on since the '70s. We acquire language when we understand it. Here's the interesting difference, the rival hypothesis, we call skill building. Skill building and comprehension idea are complete opposites in terms of cause and effect.Comprehension hypothesis says the cause is comprehensible input. The cause is understanding what you hear and what you read. The result is vocabulary, grammar, writing style, all these things. Competence, in other words.Skill building reverses it. Skill building says the first thing you should do is study. Do things consciously and work hard. Memorize vocabulary. Learn grammar rules. Practice them in output. Get your errors corrected. Make sure it's right. Do this again, again, and again. Then someday in the distant future, you will be able to use the language.I call this a delayed gratification hypothesis. Not happiness now, but happiness later. Comprehension hypothesis says happiness now. In fact, it's got to be pleasant or it won't work. You have to have input that you understand and that you pay attention to. You'll only pay attention to it if it's interesting, if you like it, if it means something to you.The problem with skill building is that the delayed gratification never comes. In my opinion, there is not a single case of a human being on this planet who has ever acquired language using skill building. Every time you see someone who got good in a language, they've had comprehensible input. It's never there. It never exists without that.In our studies, where we compared comprehension and skill building, which is really all we've been doing for the last now 40 years or so, comprehensible input always wins. It has never lost in all the experimental research, not one. It's more effective, and it's more pleasant.My observation, and it's backed up by the research, if you look at kids in a skill building class, 95 percent of them hate it. The five percent who like it become language teachers. These are the people who love grammar, who think diagramming sentences is fun. I know because I was one of them, and I still am.It took me years to overcome my fascination with Noam Chomsky and grammar, etc. They really, really like it, but that's not how language is acquired. Two things. Comprehension hypothesis, the research supports it, does not support skill building. The comprehension hypothesis makes language acquisition pleasant and fun. Skill building makes it torture.This is win‑win, but here's the problem. For the general public, the skill building hypothesis is considered to be an axiom. People are not aware that there is an alternative. For all civilians, and even a few in our field, skill building is the only game in town.If you think we learn language by study, hard work, all the ways we torture students in school, all the grammar, exercises, all the tests, all the quizzes, they make perfect sense but that's not the way it happens.The Problem with Teachers Reading ResearchRoss: Let's talk a bit more about teachers' access in research, then. What do you think stops teachers from reading more about teaching and more about research?Stephen Krashen: Everyone complains teachers don't read. This is the general mood in the United States. That teachers are stupid, teachers are responsible for the depression, economic hard times, etc. This is part of the general attack on teachers. We have done studies on this, and teachers read a fair amount, but they don't do a lot of professional reading. My feeling is it's not their fault.There are three problems, and they're serious. One is, professional literature is extremely expensive, and it's getting more so. If you want to get latest advertisement for professional books, papers by experts, and all that, 150 American dollars. I don't know about you, but nobody can afford this stuff that I know of.Ross: Definitely not on a teacher's salary, right?Stephen Krashen: Not even on a retired professor's wage. On nobody's wage. I don't know anybody who can afford this, and they're getting more and more expensive. Journals, which used to be reasonable, you could subscribe these things for 15, 20 dollars a year, now it's way up there. Hundreds of dollars.I keep records on this because I deduct it from my taxes, but I can't afford them anymore, much too expensive, especially, if you're someone like me who tries to work in several different fields at the same time. It's not just one or two journals. I have to keep up with about 30 or 40 journals. Nobody can afford this.The only people who can are people who are current university professors, who have access to a first‑class library, and that's very few of us. It's too much money.Number two, the articles are really long, and they've gotten longer. Someone once said, "When you ask someone the time, you don't want a history of the wristwatch." People have long, long introductions. Then, at the end, they want to give everyone advice on what they should do with their research. Ridiculous. Far too long, and far too incomprehensible. Full of jargon.I wrote several paper on this called, "The Case Against Gibberish," just what goes on in the journals. They are written not to be read and understood. They're written to get published. With junior scholars, very often, it's their PhD dissertation.Someone wrote me the other day. There's a new article on age differences. That was one of my major research interests, critical period, all that. The person sent me the link to the article. The article's about 40 pages long. For me to get it, I have to pay $40, US dollars. The dollars do not go to the authors, they go to the journal.For me to read a 40‑page paper is a full day's work, and I must say I'm very good at reading. I have all the background knowledge. I've published lots of papers. I know the research very well. I've usually read already most of the citations. It takes forever to get through these things because they are so dense. They want to put in everything to show off. It's impossible. I've given up.Ross: It's long struck me as ironic in a profession that's really all about simplifying our language to the point where it can be understood by language learners, we do such a bad job of presenting useful information to teachers in a format which is easy to read.Especially, when you consider that most of the teachers out there, English teachers anyway, are non‑native speakers of English. Why do you think that happens? Why is so much TEFL literature so difficult to read?Stephen Krashen: A lot of it has to do with impressing your colleagues, basically. Making it sound profound. One of the political writers in the States made a really good argument. He says, "When you take a simple idea, and you make it very complicated, you can hide. You can say the most outrageous things and feel good about yourself. No one's going to understand it, so you're OK."Ross: That reminds of Charles Bukowski. He said that, "An artist takes a complicated idea and makes it so simple, and an academic takes a simple idea and makes it complicated."Stephen Krashen: Charles Bukowski. What a guy! [laughs] Yes.The Solution to the Teacher Researach GapRoss: That's the problem with teachers not being able to get their hands on readable and affordable research. Do you want to tell us a bit about the solution?Stephen Krashen: I have been inspired by a couple of people. First of all, there's a guy named Tim Gowers. His specialty is algebraic geometry. He announced that he was no longer submitting papers to journals. He was no longer reviewing papers for journals. Just as I said, the journals are too expensive. Nobody can do it, and it's no longer worth it.He started a petition. 17,000 scholars have signed it. Possibly every major mathematician has signed it, including my son who's a math professor. So proud of my boy. What has happened, because of Tim Gowers, is that libraries started cutting back. The mathematicians were not ordering the journals, didn't matter anymore. Now, Europe has a full‑blown campaign in favor of free, open access research.The problem with it is that if you're a junior scholar and you want to get a job, or you're an assistant professor, you want to be promoted associate, the review committees typically, except in math, have no respect for open access.This will only change if people like me, senior scholars who are not going to be reviewed anymore, and other people not worried about review, start doing it. Eventually, it will catch on.My real inspiration for this, though, was The Grateful Dead rock group. The time The Grateful Dead were touring, there was a lot of concern about piracy, about kids coming out, recording the songs and sharing it with their friends. Resales of recordings started to drop, so they policed the concerts. You may not record this, against the law, blah blah blah...The Grateful Dead turned it all around. They would start their concerts by saying, "You want to record us? Go ahead." They decided not to make money on recordings, but to make money on touring. It worked.Of course, I haven't figured out how to make money yet, but at least I'm doing the first step. [laughs] I'm not going to do it through selling books, etc. Nobody can afford them, anyway. This is the revolution. My hope is that it will spread.Ross: Fantastic. Putting this on to practice then, where can teachers go to start finding research in literature online with teaching that's easy to read and, hopefully, free?Stephen Krashen: Here's what they should do. I'm going to push my stuff, of course, because that's the whole purpose. We're talking about my career. I give stuff away for free. All you have got to do is go to sdkrashen.com. SD Krashen operators are standing by. sdkrashen.com, that's my website. There's like 300 articles posted.Please consider, ladies and gentlemen, following me on Twitter. My goal is to catch up to Justin Bieber in followers. This is probably going to take four centuries at the rate I'm going.Twitter's great. What I use Twitter for is for short announcements, my papers, my colleague's papers, and how to link to them. Occasionally, some political comments, or some really good jokes, but please follow me on Twitter. I'm also on Facebook. Just Stephen Krashen on Facebook and several other categories. I used that for, again, bad jokes, but also to tell people what's new.I think this is the future. Social media's wonderful for disseminating information. If you look at me and my stuff, you're going to find other scholars who publish free things. I have really exceptional colleagues in Korea, Kyung Sook Cho; in Japan, Beniko Mason; Taiwan, Sy‑Ying Lee; Willy Renandya now in Singapore.All of us do this stuff. We post things, etc., then you find other people. They're short, and we hope they're easy to read. It's simple and it costs nothing.Ross: Great. Thank you very much again for coming on.Stephen Krashen: OK, Ross. Thanks.Ross: We'll see you next time, everyone. Bye‑bye.Stephen Krashen: Bye‑bye.

EMI present the latest in Library music as well as highlighting some newly digitised rare archive cuts. This month we are joined by James Asher, composer of some classic library tracks for Bruton and Studio G. We talk about playing with Pete Townshend on his debut single, new age music aesthetics and being sampled by The Chemical Brothers and UNKLE. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There’s gathering storm season here in OZ. While the boss is dictating our opening text to me, there’s a spectacular light show going on outside, and no kidding, the rain is nearly horizontal. Once again we take our trip to look at new releases from man & machines, not forgetting us ladies too, as the broad spectrum of sounds fill our airways. We are excited to have some quality music supplied by the owner of Heart Dance Records & R. S. Promotions, Sherry Finzer, who is an award winning new age flautist featured here with Tom Moore on the relaxation/meditational album let ‘There Be Light’. Space cadets will like the ambient side of this edition, drone soundscapes from Velge Naturlig, deep space exploration of Jaja & Jeff Pearce’s cosmic & wintry excursions just created on the guitar. Eleon, Jakub Fijak, James Asher & Richard Shulman showcase their music for the first time on Sequences, melody, sequencing and cinematic symphonic music you will love. Those more adventurous are catered by, Giant Skeletons, Shall Remain Nameless & Sensitive Chaos and we even have a spot of trance, spiced up by the feminine side of the composer Johanna Von Pfeife. Byron Metcalf with Erik Wollo & Peter Phippen continues his journey into the hypnotic rhythms and haunting melodic sound textures, meditative melodies and calm sequences from Natural Life Essence. Following on from the introduction of Tone Science, comes Module no 2, contemporary, modular synth compositions and lastly the prolific Austrian musician Fritz Mayr, quoted as, music with passion. Playlist no 136 02.50 ELEON ’Bionic Travellers’ (album Dreams Beyond Terra) www.heartdancerecords.com 08.20 ELEON ‘Digital Environment’ 11.37 Jakub Fijak ‘Message From Above’ (Eternal Moments Remix) (album Changing Colours) www.jakubfijak.bandcamp.com 18.53 Jakub Fijak ‘Avalon Landscapes’ (Sensual Version) 22.47 Jakub Fijak ‘Emotional Thinking/JF Chill-Out Mix’ 28.21 Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer ‘The Deeper Light’ (album Let There Be Light) www.heartdancerecordings.com 33.33 Tom Moore & Sherry Finzer ‘The Way Of The White Clouds’ 40.00 Jeff Pearce ‘A Walk Through The Leaves’ (album From The Darker Seasons) www.jeffpearcemusic.com 44.00 Jeff Pearce ‘Constellations’ 49.51 Fritz Mayr ‘Blue Lights’ (album Outer Space) www.fritzmayr.bandcamp.com 55.29 Byron Metcalf feat Erik Wollo ‘At Play With All That Matters’ (album Inner Rhythm Meditations Vol 11) www.heartdancerecords.com 01.05.27 Giant Skeletons ‘Giant Skeletons’ (album Guide To The Sunken Citadel) http://www.nicowalser.de 01.09.12 Giant Skeletons ‘Alluvial Land’ 01.15.43 Johanna Von Pfeife ‘Devotional Dreaming’ (album Devotional Dreaming) www.cyan-music.com 01.22.41 Tone Science Module No 2 ‘Magnetic Lullaby’ (album Elements & Particles) www.ianboddy.com 01.29.05 Natural Life Essence ‘A Mushroom Meditating Under An Old Tree’ (album Plants & Trees) *** www.cyan-music.com 01.36.38 Shall Remain Nameless ’79031’ (album Earth Texas) https://shallremainnameless.bandcamp.com/album/earth-texas 01.40.37 Shall Remain Nameless ‘Bright Morning Star’ 01.41.37 Shall Remain Nameless ‘Blackwater Bound’ 01.45.53 VelgeNaturlig ‘Hold’ (album Kundalini) www.winter-light.bandcamp.com 01.49.35 VelgeNaturlig ‘Grey Sun’ 01.50.53 Jaja ’Stars Within The Sky’ (album Upon The River Of Heaven) ***www.cyan-music.com 02.02.23 James Asher & Arthur Hull ‘Infiniterium’ (album Drum Distillery) www.rspromotionsus.com 02.06.58 James Asher & Arthur Hull ‘Deep Valleys’ 02.12.46 Fritz Mayr ‘Adrift In Time’ 02.24.21 Sensitive Chaos ‘Bad Ass Nairobi Land Rover’ (album Walking A Beautiful World) http://sensitivechaos.com 02.31.00 Sensitive Chaos ‘Dreaming Helsinki Esplanadi’ 02.37.43 Richard Schulman ‘Devotion And Idealism’ (album A New Awareness) www.richheartmusic.com 02.43.46 Optical Image ‘Interference Part 11’ (album Interference) http://soundartproductions.eu 02.51.29 Optical Image ’ White Nights’ Edit ***

An infinite escape velocity, with music by Juta Takahashi, Resonant Drift, Pink Floyd, James Asher and Arthur Hull.

An infinite escape velocity, with music by Juta Takahashi, Resonant Drift, Pink Floyd, James Asher and Arthur Hull.

In today's episode I’m talking to one of the founders and teachers of Learn Real English - Kristin Dodds. Read the show notes, full transcript & join the discussion at: englishthesmartway.com/session6 Kristin has more than 20 years of experience teaching English to speakers of other languages. She has taught English in South Korea, Thailand and Japan, as well as in the United States. She has a CELTA certificate, as well as a Master’s degree in TESOL, which stands for Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages. Kristin Dodds with AJ Hoge and Joe Weiss run together Learn Real English which helps students around the world becoming fluent and confident English speakers. The Real English Conversation Lessons - which is the name of the course - teaches you English without focusing on grammar rules. Instead you listen to real English conversations of native English speakers. This way you will learn grammar subconsciously without even realising it. In the first part of our interview Kristin is sharing with us her challenging first experience in teaching English in South Korea and her soon realisation that studying grammar to succeed in English isn’t effective at all. Later in the interview Kristin talks about acquiring language in the most natural way - by listening a lot - which is actually very similar to the way how children learn language. We also talk about how opening up to culture of a country can help us tremendously with our language learning. Kristin then shares with us the success story of her Thai friend, her number one tip for English learners, and she also talks about the benefits of free voluntary reading. Listen to and enjoy today's episode with Kristin Dodds from Learn Real English. In the session you will learn - How was Kristin’s first experience in teaching English in Korea and Georgia (9:01) - How Kristin realised that teaching English using textbooks isn’t effective (14:51, 15:30) - What we can learn from the research of Stephen Krashen and James Asher (15:30) - How you can acquire language as a child in the most natural way (15:30) - The success story of Kristin’s friend from Thailand (21:45) - How can Free voluntary reading improve our English - not just reading skills (26:01) - How opening yourself up to culture of a country can help you tremendously with your language learning (28:15) - What to do when your brain wants to translate from your native language to English instead of directly thinking in English (33:30) - Kristin’s number one tip for English learners around the world (36:32) Enjoy! :) Read the show notes, full transcript & join the discussion at: englishthesmartway.com/session6

Dr. James Asher is a pioneer in the language teaching field.  In this podcast I discuss his unique ideas and research.